Watkins Glen, NY – Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb/Agajanian driver Brandon Newey and F1600 Formula F Championship leader set pole for Saturday afternoon’s race in his Mygale/Honda. Newey’s qualifying time of 1:57:544 beat the existing Watkins Glen International track qualifying record for F1600, also grabbing valuable Championship points. Matias Koykka, also in the fight for the title, qualified fourth after a penalty for running a black flag.

Starting second in this afternoon’s race will be Jim Goughary followed by Sergio Pasian, who is also running in F2000 this weekend.

An incident in turn one ten minutes into the session caused the session to stop. Many drivers missed the black flag and lost two grid positions per Series rules. The incident was quickly cleared and the field was able to go back out for a few more laps.

Both Spectrum/Honda’s round out the top five with Koykka of Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor racing will be starting fourth, right in front of teammate Neil Alberico.

Keenan Harris, Roberto Lorena, Adrian Starrantino, Steve Oseth, and Jeremy Grenier made up the top ten for race one starting at 3:55 local time this afternoon.

The race will be broadcasting live audio on www.f1600series.com and timing will be live on Race Monitor.